ReviewNature reviews. Immunology2025
New insights into antibody structure with implications for specificity, variable region restriction and isotype choice.
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- Four IgG Antibodies and Protein G Are Shapeshifters.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Integrative Computational Prediction Strategy for Antibody-Antigen Binding: A Case Study on Interleukin-1 Beta.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026Article
- [Use of vaccines to prevent the development of bacterial resistance].Bundesgesundheitsblatt, Gesundheitsforschung, Gesundheitsschutz · 2026Review
- Cytokine Gene Polymorphisms Modulate Isohemagglutinin Titers and Classes: Another Aspect Towards the Link Between ABO Groups and Human Pathologies?International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
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- Stability Under Different Stress Treatments of a Virus-like Particle Vaccine Based on a Recombinant Hepatitis E Vaccine.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Antibody-Empowered Nanomedicine for Precise Biomedical Applications.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Diverse roles of YTHDC1 in chromatin and blood cancers.Frontiers in genetics · 2026Review
- Reprogramming the SARS-CoV-1 Neutralizing Antibody S230 to SARS-CoV-2 via Directed Evolution and Molecular Docking-Based Binding Mode Analysis.ACS synthetic biology · 2025Article
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- Exploring the structural basis and functional immunodynamics of immunoglobulin M in host defense against fungal pathogens.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Review
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Abstract
The mystery surrounding the mechanisms by which antibody diversity is generated was largely settled in the 1970s by the discoveries of variable gene rearrangements and somatic hypermutation. This led to the paradigm that immunoglobulins are composed of two independent domains - variable and constant - that confer specificity and effector functions, respectively. However, since these early discoveries, there have been a series of observations of communication between the variable and constant domains that affects the overall antibody structure, which suggests that immunoglobulins have a more complex, interconnected functionality than previously thought. Another unresolved issue has been the genesis of 'restricted' antibody responses, characterized by the use of only a few variable region gene segments, despite the enormous potential combinatorial diversity. In this Perspective, we place recent findings related to immunoglobulin structure and function in the context of these immunologically important, historically unsolved problems to propose a new model for how antibody specificity is achieved without autoreactivity.
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